Dr Charles Norman MacLeod

Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Personal statement

Charles MacLeod is a Chancellor's Fellow & Lecturer in the Centre for Ultrasonic Engineering. After being awarded a Masters in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering with Distinction at Strathclyde, Charles then went on to undertake a PhD in Automated Non–Destructive Evaluation.

His research is primarily associated with the inspection and manufacturing enhancement of high value assets and components. He leads a number of high-profile inter-disciplinary in-process welding and metal additive research projects.

While undertaking his PhD Charles, was seconded to Spirit AeroSystems, in Prestwick to undertake Knowledge Exchange activities built on fundamental EPSRC funded research. Charles was awarded the prestigious University of Strathclyde EPSRC Doctoral Prize for 2014, for his work investigating automated non-contact ultrasound.

His research interests include:

Non-Destructive Evaluation

Sensors including Ultrasonic, Electromagnetic, Tactile and Visual

Automation

Metrology

Robotics

Low noise electronics.

Charles has delivered impact in the form of dissemination, new revenue, commercialisation and product hardware through a number of high profile KE projects.

Teaching Activities.

EE312 Instrumentation and Microcontrollers Lectures, Laboratories and Tutorials.

Prizes and awards

Knowledge Exchange Award: Recipient; 2016
University of Strathclyde Faculty of Engineering Knowledge Exchange Award (2016): Recipient; 1/8/2016
University of Strathclyde EPSRC Doctoral Prize 2014/2015: Recipient; 1/1/2015

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Publications

Ultrasonic phased array inspection of wire plus arc additive manufacture ‎‎(WAAM) samples using conventional and total focusing method (TFM) ‎imaging approaches: Javadi Yashar, MacLeod Charles Norman, Pierce Stephen, Gachagan Anthony, Kerr William, Ding Jialuo, Williams Stewart, Vasilev Momchil, Su Riliang, Mineo Carmelo, Dziewierz Jerzy; 57th The British Institue of Non-destructive Testing Annual Conference (2018)
Enabling robotic adaptive behaviour capabilities for new industry 4.0 automated quality inspection paradigms: Mineo Carmelo, Vasilev Momchil, MacLeod Charles N, Su Riliang, Pierce S Gareth; 57th Annual British Conference on Non-Destructive Testing, pp. 1-12 (2018)
Off-line scan path planning for robotic NDT: Morozov M, Pierce SG, MacLeod CN, Mineo C, Summan R; Measurement Vol 122, pp. 284-290 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2018.02.020
Intentional weld defect process : from manufacturing by ‎‎robotic welding machine to inspection ‎using TFM phased ‎‎array ‎: Javadi Yashar, Vasilev Momchil, MacLeod Charles N, Pierce Stephen G, Su Riliang, Mineo Carmelo, Dziewierz Jerzy, Gachagan Anthony; 45th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation 45th Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation Conference (2018)
Autonomous ultrasonic inspection using unmanned aerial vehicle: Zhang Dayi, Watson Robert, Dobie Gordon, MacLeod Charles Norman, Pierce Gareth; 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (2018); https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2018.8579727
Low cost three-dimensional virtual model construction for remanufacturing industry: Siddiqi Muftooh U R, Ijomah Winifred L, Dobie Gordon I, Hafeez Muthair, Pierce S Gareth, Ion William, Mineo Carmelo, MacLeod Charles N; Journal of Remanufacturing (2018); https://doi.org/10.1007/s13243-018-0059-5

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Professional activities

Organiser for Factory 2050/ KUKA advanced robot programming workshop: Participant; 6/6/2018
WAAMat Research Day - Automated NDE Keynote: Speaker; 13/6/2018
Keynote Talk - Impact In Manufacturing Inspection: Speaker; 14/3/2018
Imperial College PGR EngD Viva Examination - External Examiner: Examiner; 5/2/2018
Autonomous Systems Lab, Institute of Robotics & Intelligent Systems, ETH Zurich: Visiting researcher; 20/11/2018
Faculty Robotics and Automation Users Group Discussion: Participant; 10/10/2017

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Projects

DTP 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Zimermann, Rastislav: MacLeod, Charles Norman (Principal Investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator) Zimermann, Rastislav (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2022
Insptectahire - OGIC: Dobie, Gordon (Principal Investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Co-investigator); 03-Jan-2018 - 30-Jan-2020
New Wire Additive Manufacture- NEWAM: Pierce, Gareth (Principal Investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Co-investigator); 25-Jan-2018 - 24-Jan-2023
ANRC 012-01_Ultrasonic Inspection and Monitoring for Challenging Industrial Welding Applications_CORE: MacLeod, Charles Norman (Principal Investigator); 01-Jan-2018 - 30-Jan-2021
Acoustic Based Characterisation of arc fusion process control parameters: MacLeod, Charles Norman (Principal Investigator) Dobie, Gordon (Co-investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator) Mulholland, Anthony (Co-investigator) Pierce, Gareth (Co-investigator) Stratoudaki, Theodosia (Co-investigator) Tant, Katherine Margaret Mary (Co-investigator); 02-Jan-2018 - 30-Jan-2020
Automated delivery of non-contact NDE sensors: Dobie, Gordon (Principal Investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Co-investigator) Pierce, Gareth (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2020

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Address

Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Technology Innovation Centre

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